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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-29650

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Service performed against national response time targets in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.

Question reference: S3W-29656

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has produced guidance on the use of call-off contracts in the procurement of social care services.

The Scottish Government published guidance on social care procurement in August 2008 which provided advice on the requirement to advertise framework agreements for social care services, where necessary to comply with the EC Treaty''s transparency principles. The guidance confirmed that call-off contracts awarded under a framework agreement do not need to be re-advertised if the framework agreement has itself been the subject of adequate publicity.

The guidance is available on the Scottish Government''s website:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/116601/0065310.pdf.

The forthcoming guidance on social care procurement will provide information on the establishment of framework agreements and the award of call-off contracts under a framework agreement.

Question reference: S3W-29649

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the national response times are for calls to the Scottish Ambulance Service.

The Scottish Ambulance Service national response time target for category A calls (life threatening) across mainland Scotland is that, by March 2009, 75% of all incidents should be reached within eight minutes. This measure is also part of the NHS Scotland HEAT Performance Management system.

The Scottish Ambulance Service national response time target for category B calls (serious but not life threatening) across mainland Scotland is that, by March 2009, 95% of all incidents should be reached within 14, 19 or 21 minutes depending on population density.

These targets are ones that the Scottish Ambulance Service were working towards during 2007-08 and 2008-09.

The performance information requested is set out in the following table. Information broken down by parliamentary constituency is not held centrally.

NHS Board	March 2008 (%)		March 2009 (%)
NHS Board	Cat A	Cat B	Cat A	Cat B
Argyll and Clyde	70.6	95.4	80.2	95.8
Ayrshire and Arran	65.5	95.4	75.7	97.2
Borders	53.7	90.3	65.6	94.3
Dumfries and Galloway	61.5	91.7	71.5	94.4
Fife	68.2	95.1	79.9	98.1
Forth Valley	65.0	93.9	77.8	97.4
Grampian	76.5	96.4	79.1	96.2
Greater Glasgow	69.6	89.1	77.8	91.1
Highland	66.3	92.4	70.0	92.4
Lanarkshire	65.1	96.3	76.7	97.0
Lothian	69.3	96.1	78.7	96.9
Tayside	69.3	95.4	77.9	96.9
Mainland Scotland	68.4	94.0	77.4	95.5

Notes:

*Information provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service.

**SAS systems record data under the previous structure of 15 geographic health boards.

Question reference: S3W-29613

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to meet the HEAT target to “reduce the number of readmissions (within one year) for those that have had a hospital admission of over 7 days by 10% (by the end of December 2009)”.

A range of local actions are in train to support the readmissions target, which is designed to help drive improvements in community mental health services (notably in crisis and out-of-hours services), including patient pathways and effective discharge planning.

NHS boards are working with others, and are supported by The Mental Health Collaborative, to support and meet this target. Actions include: mapping current services; gathering and analysing local data on readmissions; staff training; involving service users and carers in service improvement; and improving data systems.

The NHS in Scotland is currently exceeding the readmissions target according to the latest available figures, with an overall decrease of 26%.

Question reference: S3W-29651

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Ambulance Services performed against response time targets in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09, broken down by (i) NHS board area and (ii) parliamentary constituency.

Question reference: S3W-29618

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in achieving the HEAT target to “reduce the suicide rate between 2002 and 2013 by 20%, supported by 50% of key frontline staff in mental health and substance misuse services, primary care, and accident and emergency being educated and trained in using suicide assessment tools/suicide prevention training programmes by (2010-2013)”.

Question reference: S3W-29653

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any part of the Scottish Ambulance Service has altered patterns of ambulance cover as a result of financial constraints.

Question reference: S3W-29609

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing or the Minister for Public Health and Sport instructed NHS board chairs to publicly support minimum alcohol pricing at their recent meeting.

Question reference: S3W-29782

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 07 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 14 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of women eligible for the Scottish Breast Screening Programme takes up the service.

Question reference: S3W-29652

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what the current operating deficit is for the Scottish Ambulance Service, also broken down by NHS board area.